Created with TaskStream What is the atmosphere?
Author: Jillian Hunt
Based on lesson by: Jillian Hunt
Date created: 02/11/2009 7:54 PM EDT ; Date modified: 02/18/2009 6:05 PM EDT

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BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Subject(s) Science
Topic or Unit of Study

Atmosphere
Grade/Level Grade 4

STANDARDS & ASSESSMENT
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Arrow Open NJ- New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards
Arrow Open Subject: Science (Adopted July 2, 2002)
Arrow Open Standard 5.8: (EARTH SCIENCE) ALL STUDENTS WILL GAIN AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE STRUCTURE, DYNAMICS, AND GEOPHYSICAL SYSTEMS OF THE EARTH.
Arrow Open Range/Grade Level: By the end of Grade 4
Arrow Open Strand B: Atmosphere and Water
Cumulative Progress Indicator 1: Recognize that air is a substance that surrounds us, takes up space, and moves around us as wind.
Cumulative Progress Indicator 2: Recognize that most of Earth’s surface is covered by water and be able to identify the characteristics of those sources of water. · oceans · rivers · lakes · underground sources · glaciers.
Cumulative Progress Indicator 4: Observe that when liquid water disappears, it turns into a gas (vapor) in the air and can reappear as a liquid when cooled, or as a solid if cooled below its freezing point.
Cumulative Progress Indicator 6: Recognize that clouds and fog are made of tiny droplets of water and possibly tiny particles of ice.
Assessment Plan

1. Section 1 Review questions

2.Experiment (Breathe In Breathe Out)

 
Assessment/Rubrics

IMPLEMENTATION
Goal(s) To understand the importance of the atmosphere.
Objective The student should be able to recognize what the main components of the atmosphere consist of.
Purpose The purpose for this lesson is for students to be able to apply the information about the atmosphere to real life.
Procedure

  • Begin by asking students if they all have ever experienced a thunderstorm.

  • Follow by asking if anyone knows anything abou the atmosphere.(What it is? what it's composed of?, ect...)

  • Have the students then read the first paragraph of Section 1 in their textbooks. Interact with students about their experiences, get them motivated to learn about the atmosphere.

  • Write the definition of atmosphere on the board so that students can really obtain what it is we are actually about to learn. Atmosphere- the layer of gases that surrounds the planet.

  • Have the students read "Importance of the Atmosphere" then stop when done.

  • Discuss what they read. For example how easy it was to understand what the atmosphere is by the textbooks emample.(The apple is the earth and if you breathe on it the atmosphere is that thin film on the apple)

  • **Make it known to students the importance of the atmosphere...oxygen and other gases that WE need in order to live)**

  • Use the checkpoint at the end of the paragraph to get the students engaged in what they are learning about.

  • Write on the board the word atom and molecule. Ask students if anyone might know what they are. Then begin to fil in the definition for the students to understand.

  • draw the picture in the textbook of the gases in dry air. Show students how Nitrogen and Oxgen are the ywo biggest components that the Earth's made of.

  • Use scaffolding with the work Atmosphere. Attach Nitrogen, Oxygen, Carbon Dioxide, Other gases, and Water Vapor. Show the students that this is what the Earth' satmophere is composed of. Reinforce the majority is Nitrogen and Oxgen.

  • Discuss how Nitrogen is essential to living things and how we need nitrogen to grow and to repair our own cells. Nitrogen is essential to complex chemical substances as well.

    Have students read the rest of the chapter and than ask what they have learned about Carbon Dioxide, other gases and water vapor.

    Homework: Section 1 Review questions

  • Experiment

 

 
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Time Allotment 1 class periods. 35 Min. per class.
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